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Boston Fire Department Responds to Elevator Room Fire

The Boston Fire Department (BFD) extinguished a fire in an elevator room in a nine-story building on Tremont Street on the morning of July 18, according to the Boston Globe....

MBTA To Test Urine Detection Program in Elevators

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), which services Boston and the surrounding area, is launching a pilot program this August in which urine detection sensors will be placed in four...

OSHA Among Those Investigating Boston Elevator Shaft Fall

OHSA is among those investigating a May 27 incident in which a construction worker fell three stories down an elevator shaft in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Boston 25 News...

Boston Guest and Resident Tower Tops Out

Work on the 35-story project Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences has reached the top of the structure, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) reports. The...

Boston Developments Set to Transform Neighborhoods

News outlets including the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and the Boston Herald recently reported on a pair of projects set to transform the Boston South End and...

691-Ft.-Tall Plan for Boston Skyscraper Out of the Shadows

After a 10-year debate, the Boston City Council approved developer Millennium Partners’ plan to build a 691-ft.-tall, mixed-use skyscraper designed by Handel Architects on the former Winthrop Square parking garage...

Boston’s Third-Tallest Tower Tops Out on Back Bay

The 61-story, 742-ft.-tall Hotel and Private Residences on Dalton Street, also known as One Dalton (ELEVATOR WORLD, April 2013), topped out in August on Boston’s Back Bay, Curbed Boston reported....

Whimsy meets history in and around metropolis.

Curved Mitsubishi Electric Escalators at Wynn Boston Harbor Featuring Mitsubishi Electric’s signature curved escalators framing a US$28-million statue of the cartoon character Popeye, the lobby of Wynn Boston Harbor casino...

Bulfinch Crossing Underway in Boston

Construction began on Bulfinch Crossing, a 2.9-million-sq.-ft. mixed-use project in Boston, in January. Commercial Property Executive reported that developers National Real Estate Advisors LLC and The HYM Investment Group LLC...

New company launched and regional sales manager named.

New NYC Door/Cab Company Building Supply & Installation Services, LLC (BSIS) is a new Long Island, New York-based company primarily serving Greater New York City (NYC) with a goal to...

BOY DIES IN “OLD AND POORLY MAINTAINED” ELEVATOR IN INDIA

Boy Dies in “Old and Poorly Maintained” Elevator in India

Cho Jae-cheon, CEO of Hyundai Elevator, left, and Yoon Jeong-il, head of Hyundai E&C's purchasing division, sign an MoU at Hyundai E&C's headquarters in Jongno-gu, Seoul; image courtesy of Hyundai Elevator

Hyundai Elevator Signs Modular Elevator Commercialization MoU

The circa-1985 elevators on SkyTrain’s Expo Line are being replaced with new KONE units; image courtesy of TransLink via X.

40-Year-Old SkyTrain Elevators Being Replaced in Canada

TKE OWNERS SELECT FINANCIAL ADVISORS FOR PLANNED IPO

TKE Owners Select Financial Advisors for Planned IPO

CIA TO SHOWCASE CANOPEN LIFT AT INTERLIFT

CIA To Showcase CANopen Lift at Interlift